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...since I was a kid,” Parilo said Wednesday. “I thought it would be fun to have my family on Family Feud. This is a little twisted, but still fun.” The Harvard team will compete against seven other universities for a minimum prize of $120,000. USC, UCLA, Caltech, The Ohio State University, University of Notre Dame, University of Michigan and The University of Texas at Austin are also fielding teams. While the team has plenty of enthusiasm, they’re just getting to know each other—they...
...counterparts risked souring the moderate Democrats she can't afford to lose. The bill the Senate passed included a $100 billion extension of unrelated tax benefits - provisions like tax breaks for business R&D and alternative energy and money to prevent more Americans from being hit by the Alternative Minimum Tax - that the Blue Dogs have fought for years. This increasingly powerful bunch of Democrats isn't opposed to tax cuts, but they are against passing them without offsetting the costs with spending cuts...
...Boston University, the weather was not a friend to the Crimson. Harvard finished ninth overall in the regatta, placing tenth in the A-division and eighth in the B-division. The competition was characterized by a lack of wind, which only allowed for three races—the minimum amount required for a regatta to count—to be completed. “[We were] not very happy with the result,” junior Drew Robb said. Skipper Robb and freshman crew Annie DeAngelo placed eighth, twelfth, and eighth in three B-division races. The Crimson saw similar...
...passage of the Federal Uniform Drinking Age Act (FUDAA) in 1984 placed pressure on states to adopt a minimum legal drinking age of 21 by October 1986, or sacrifice 10 percent of their allocated federal funding for highway construction. Many states had lowered their drinking age from 21 to 18 in the 1970s—coinciding with the passage of the 26th Amendment by which citizens age 18 and older were granted voting rights. A primary aim of the FUDAA was to reduce typically high teenage TFRs by limiting access to alcohol for this age group. TFRs...
...coercive implementation of the uniform minimum age has, contrary to popular belief, probably had very little influence on saving lives on the road. In fact, Harvard economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron and Elina Tetelbaum ’07 have published a working paper which suggests that any correlation between 21 laws and reduced TFRs is only statistically relevant in states that had voluntarily increased their drinking ages before the FUDAA was passed. Among states that adopted the 21 minimum because of the government incentive, there has been no measurable reduction correlation with teen TFRs. Moreover, decreases in TFRs over...